Develop your team

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Our practical programmes focus on:

Key classroom techniques for effective learning.
Developing and exploiting engaging materials.
Ensuring student motivation and success.
Our tutor team have extensive expertise and experience in:
Curriculum design.
Syllabus evaluation.
Testing and assessment.
The CEFR
Aligning your syllabus with key competencies.

Bespoke Training

We listen to your objectives, get to know your team, identify gaps and design bespoke training programmes to meet your needs.

We help institutions develop their staff and ensure compliance with external quality assurance criteria.

Our online CPD courses feature synchronous group meetings and workshops together with offline tasks for teachers to complete as it suits their schedules.

We are also available for in-person training.

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Real conversation classes

Demand is high for comversation classes, but are we demanding too little of our students in them? How can we stop it becoming little more than a chat with…

Approaching Sounds: Integrating Phonology into Our Lessons.

Teaching materials may deal with pronunciation on a surface level or even as a separate entity, rather than integrating it with routine aspects of language and learning…

Authenticity in the classroom.

Teachers, learners, materials writers and assessment boards often strive for authenticity in language use. Definition of the concept is not trouble-free but balanced against the alternatives – contrived, artificial language input and use, most practitioners …

Listening to Learn or Learning to Listen?

Listening marks the first step of language development for hearing individuals. As such, its importance in allowing the necessary input for language acquisition to take place should not be underestimated. We use listening in order to …

Tasks in the classroom

The weight of evidence from second language acquisition research suggests that approaches that focus on fluency first and deal with language aspects second is the most effective way to speed up our learners’ natural process of learning English. To this end, approaches like task-based language teaching (TBLT), Dogme and Community Language Learning (CLL) are often posited as a way of breaking away from a coursebook-led, ‘Grammar McNuggets’ (Thornbury, 2010) approach to teaching.